Casting Lear

In this intimate version of Shakespeare’s play, Andrea Jiménez asks a different actor to join her on stage every evening to play King Lear as an echo of her own father. With this gesture, through which reality enters fiction, the director explores the possibility of forgiving the actions of an abusive parent. In this autofiction based on a classic, the stage becomes an open space where the actor is directed live and where the tragedy unfolds on the razor’s edge between theatre and performance art. In her quest for this “other” father, Andrea Jiménez creates a unique, non-reproducible gesture, inviting the audience to the reinvention of a life which, without erasing the past, allows her to imagine a different ending to the story. 

매일 저녁, 한 명의 배우가 안드레아 히메네스의 아버지 역할을 맡아 등장한다. 그는 리어 왕이 되고, 그녀는 코델리아가 된다. 이러한 대면 속에서, 현실과 허구가 교차하며, 하나의 회복을 시도하는 과정이 펼쳐진다. 

With Andrea Jiménez, Matthieu Luro, en alternance Denis Podalydès et Éric Ruf
Text and adaptation Andrea Jiménez
Based on William Shakespeare’s King Lear, adapted by Juan Mayorga
Traduction en français Lise Belperron
Direction Andrea Jiménez, Úrsula Martínez
Dramaturgy Olga Iglesias
Music Lucas Ariel
Lighting and set design Judit Colomer
Costumes Yaiza Pinillos
Movement Inés Narváez et Amaya Galeote
Assistance to direction Oscar Martínez Gil
Set manager Mélanie Pindado
Set operator Raúl Baena et Eduardo Vizuete 
Sound operator Carlos González
Production management and executive production Nuria-Cruz Moreno
Production management assistance Fabián Ojeda Villafuerte
Production and stage management Blanca Serrano
Touring and stage management Paco Flor
Technical management Manuel Fuster et Alberto de las Heras
Coordination of guest actors María Díaz
Set construction Óscar Muñoz – La Caverna del Érebo
Administration Henar Hernández
Press relations María Díaz
Photograph Sergio Parra
Poster design Eva Ramón
Distribution Spagne Fran Ávila Distribución
Transportation FJS Transporte

Production Barco Pirata, Teatro de La Abadía (Madrid), Andrea Jiménez
In coproduction with Le Théâtre Garonne – Toulouse for the french version
Executive production and french distribution OTTO PRODUCTIONS 
Support INAEM (Madrid), Comunidad de Madrid
Support for the 80th Festival d'Avignon Ambassade d'Espagne en France
Residencies La Moissie Creative Residencies (Belvès), théâtre Garonne
Acknowledgement Teatro Municipal de Coslada, Raquel Varela, Lise Belperron, Thibaut Garçon, Paco Savio, Pedro Manuel Galán, Javier Cuartero, Higinio Rodríguez, Juan Carlos González-Mohino, Juan Carlos Prieto, Juan Carlos Escudero, José Blanes, Juan Bautista, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Ezequiel Castellanos, Jesús Peñas, Álvaro Majer, Guillermo Aragonés, Sergio Cappanera, Andrés Zaragoza, Juan José Cabrera, Chema Casillas, Federico López Melo, Ricardo Galán, Pampyn, Jaime Laorden, Blas Ortis, Juan Manuel Romero, Julian Luján, Jesús Blanco, Xuacu, Ramón Muñiz y Braulio Suarez

Presented in partnership with France Médias Monde

Premiered at the Théâtre Garonne, Scène Européenne, Toulouse on 20 and 21 July 2026.